Benjamin Spooner Briggs was an experienced American seaman and master mariner. He was the captain of the merchant ship Mary Celeste, which was discovered unmanned and drifting in the Atlantic Ocean midway between the Azores and the coast of... Wikipedia
Born: April 24, 1835, Massachusetts
Died: November 1872 (age 37 years), Atlantic Ocean
Children: Sophia Matilda Briggs
Partner: Sarah Elizabeth Briggs